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...spokesman for resistance is a member called René Ferrière (who for security reasons cannot be photographed or described). Ferrière calls himself "le français du trottoir"-the Frenchman in the street. When he arrived in Algiers, he was as unaware as most Frenchmen of the confusion there. He had expected much: "After two days," he said, "I was completely bewildered, cried all night and intended to return to France the next day." He has stayed long enough to see the leading men of Vichy cleaned out of the administration, politics and the army...
...liberation of France will see more than a clash of Allied and German arms. It will also see a clash of Frenchmen and Frenchmen. On one side will be General Charles de Gaulle and his Algiers Liberation Committee, armed with extensive blueprints for a mid-invasion and postwar French Government. On the other side: none other than that veteran of defeat and collaboration, 87-year-old Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain. In Vichy's twilight, the tarnished star of Pétain is rising...
Vichy Parry. When Marshal Pétain attempted recently to promulgate his own eleventh-hour "democracy" (TIME, Nov. 29), he proved himself still to be a man to watch. His move was shrewd. Its purpose : to attract the many Frenchmen who still revere his name, the many who fear the wrath of Gaullist and guerrilla alike when liberation comes, the many who have something to lose in a postliberation purge...
...tain's adherents could claim that they, and they alone, were the last-elected representatives of the French people. The old Marshal could claim that he had stayed with France in its blackest hour. However specious such claims may be, the Frenchmen of France will be the judges...
...Free Will." Last August the French underground newspaper Resistance predicted that Vichy would do exactly what Vichy seemed to be doing last week: i.e., make a show of democratic repentance, against the day when the Allied armies and anti-Nazi Frenchmen liberate France. Said Réesistance...